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Caryatid | A 2000 year old caryatid from the Forum of August… | Flickr

#caryatid | A 2000 year old caryatid from the Forum of Augustus on exhibition at the wonderfully restored Trajan's Market complex. A Roman "shopping mall". (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryatid" rel="noreferrer nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan's_Market" rel="noreferrer nofollow">here</a>. <i>This fine work gives substance to the emperor Augustus' statement "I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble" (Augustus, Res Gestae)</i>

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#caryatid | The Acropolis Museum, one of the most important museums in the world, houses the findings of only one archaeological site, the Athenian Acropolis and its slopes. The masterpieces that form its collection offer a comprehensive overview of the character and historical course of the site that became a global landmark of both the ancient and the modern world.

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AD Classics: Acropolis of Athens / Ictinus, Callicrates, Mnesikles and Phidias | ArchDaily

#caryatid | The Parthenon, perhaps the most celebrated example of Classical Greek architecture, was only the first of a series of remarkable buildings to be...

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Western sculpture - Ancient Greek, Marble, Statues | Britannica

#caryatid | Western sculpture - Ancient Greek, Marble, Statues: Greek art no doubt owed much indirectly to the Minoan-Mycenaean civilization (now known in its later stages to have been Greek), which disintegrated at the end of the 2nd millennium bce, partly under the impact of a series of invasions from the Balkans. The period covered by this section, however, begins about 900 bce with the kaleidoscopic rearrangement of invaders and earlier inhabitants into a new pattern, which was followed by a steady artistic development—continuing without interruption down to the conquest of Greece by Rome in 146 bce. Even this diverted, rather than interrupted, the flow, and Greek artists continued

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Caryatid | Classical Greek, Columnar Support, Sculptural Form | Britannica

#caryatid | Caryatid, in classical architecture, draped female figure used instead of a column as a support. In marble architecture they first appeared in pairs in three small buildings (treasuries) at Delphi (550–530 bc), and their origin can be traced back to mirror handles of nude figures carved from ivory

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Caryatid - World History Encyclopedia

#caryatid | Caryatid is the name given to an architectural column which takes the form of a standing female figure. The first examples come from ancient Greek architecture...

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